Analysis of Dead Cow Farm
Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)
An ancient saga tells us how
In the beginning the First Cow
(For nothing living yet had birth
But Elemental Cow on earth)
Began to lick cold stones and mud:
Under her warm tongue flesh and blood
Blossomed, a miracle to believe:
And so was Adam born, and Eve.
Here now is chaos once again,
Primeval mud, cold stones and rain.
Here flesh decays and blood drips red,
And the Cow’s dead, the old Cow’s dead.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 00010011 11010111 1010111 01111101 10011101 100100101 01110101 11110101 01011101 11010111 00110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 412 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 313 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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